Indigenous Voices 12/18/07

Producers/hosts: Rhonda Frey and Meredith DeFrancesco

Guest: Representative Donna Loring

Topics: Multiple topics, including: History of tribal representation in Maine legislature; LD281 “An Act to Require Teaching Maine Native American History and Culture in Maine Schools” and how it is being implemented;  How the Maine Indian Claims  Settlement Act was used to diminish tribal sovereignty in the case of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes attempt to protect river quality from paper company pollution

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RadioActive 12/13/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The federal government is demolishing public housing units—ones that were not severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina and could be repaired—despite high rates of homelessness in New Orleans.  This week in New Orleans and around the country people are holding events to draw attention to the situation.  We talk with a group of former New Orleans relief workers who engaged in civil disobedience at the Bangor Maine HUD office this week, and speak by phone with a New Orleans resident working on this issue.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/13/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Ever wonder how social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace that don’t charge for membership manage to make money. Lately, these sites have decided that the currency of the information universe is information, and they have
plenty of that. Unfortunately, the information they have is information about the interests and tastes and purchases of their members, and hawking that brings up some real privacy problems for those members, and a lot of members don’t like it.

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